News_Image_File: Jamaliah (left) gives a hug to Raudhatul Jannah (centre), with Raudhatul's grandmother (right), after being reunited in Meulaboh, Aceh. Picture: AAP Image/Sijori Images, Achwa NussaNews_Image_File: About 170, l000 died in Aceh ... What was once a thriving village near the coast of Sumatra after the earthquake and ensuing tsunami on 26 December 2004.

Jamaliah said she and her husband stopped searching after a month, and believed she was dead until Jamaliah’s brother spotted a girl who looked like her long-lost daughter in June.

They later found that the girl had been under the care of an elderly woman in nearby Aceh Barat Daya district.

News_Image_File: A fishing ship lies on a road following the 2004 tsunami. Picture: AFP/Prakash Singh

The family were reunited on Wednesday.

“My husband and I are very happy we have found her,” Jamaliah said by telephone from Meulaboh, the main town in West Aceh.

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“This is a miracle from God.”

Jamaliah said she had no doubt that the girl was her daughter as soon as she saw her.

“If anyone is in doubt, I’m ready for DNA tests,” she said.

Jamaliah said after the tsunami hit her house, Raudhatul and her brother, then seven, slipped from her and her husband’s grasp as they held on to a floating plank of wood.

News_Image_File: Sri Lankan survivors of the 2004 tsunami search through wreckage of homes and businesses.

Raudhatul, now 14, had told her parents that her brother was likely to have survived after the two were stranded on Banyak Island, her mother said.

“We will look for him on Banyak Island because we believe he is still alive,” she said.

News_Image_File: Abject desolation ... Aerial view of tsunami-damaged town of Meulaboh in West Aceh province on Indonesian island of Sumatra, on December 28, 2004.

The sparsely inhabited island group is around 40 kilometres off the coast.

The Indian Ocean tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off Sumatra island, killed 230,000 people in 14 countries, including 170,000 in Aceh.

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Sri Lankan child, left homeless where area was devasted by Boxing Daytsunami tidal waves, stands outside a temporary refugee camp at the beachof town of Hambantota.

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A view of the city previously devastated by the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and subsequent tsunami, on December 24, 2009 in Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh was the worst hit location, being the closest major city to the epicentre of the 9.1 magnitude quake, suffering a huge hit from the following tsunami and resulting in around 130,000 deaths. Getty Images

Sri Lankan child, left homeless where area was devasted by Boxing Day tsunami tidal waves, stands outside a temporary refugee camp at the beach of town of Hambantota.

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A young girl collects some of the hundreds of thousands of petals that fluttered from the ceiling of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

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An Acehnese man walks through debris left behind by Boxing Day tsunami in the town of Banda Aceh.

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Sri Lankan woman mourning beside a body in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami. Image taken by Indian Arko Datto, winner of World Press Photo 05 award.

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Acehnese tsunami victims gather to receive aid supplies flown in by helicopter in Kouati Sounam, south of provincial capital of Banda Aceh, after thousands were killed, many more left injured & homeless when massive tidal waves hit Indonesian island of Sumatra on Boxing Day.

Sri Lankan child, left homeless where area was devasted by Boxing Daytsunami tidal waves, stands outside a temporary refugee camp at the beachof town of Hambantota.

A view of the city previously devastated by the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and subsequent tsunami, on December 24, 2009 in Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh was the worst hit location, being the closest major city to the epicentre of the 9.1 magnitude quake, suffering a huge hit from the following tsunami and resulting in around 130,000 deaths. Getty Images

Sri Lankan child, left homeless where area was devasted by Boxing Day tsunami tidal waves, stands outside a temporary refugee camp at the beach of town of Hambantota.

A young girl collects some of the hundreds of thousands of petals that fluttered from the ceiling of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

An Acehnese man walks through debris left behind by Boxing Day tsunami in the town of Banda Aceh.

Sri Lankan woman mourning beside a body in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami. Image taken by Indian Arko Datto, winner of World Press Photo 05 award.

Acehnese tsunami victims gather to receive aid supplies flown in by helicopter in Kouati Sounam, south of provincial capital of Banda Aceh, after thousands were killed, many more left injured & homeless when massive tidal waves hit Indonesian island of Sumatra on Boxing Day.